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Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's
cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at the contested place
of the provinces in twenty-first-century Russian literature and
popular culture, addressing notions of nationalism, authenticity,
Orientalism, Occidentalism, and postimperial identity. Surveying a
largely unexplored body of Russian journalism, literature, and film
from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Parts
finds that the harshest portrayals of the provinces arise within
""high"" culture. Popular culture, however, has increasingly turned
from the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow to
celebrate the hinterlands as repositories of national traditions
and moral strength. This change, she argues, has directed debate
about Russia's identity away from its loss of imperial might and
global prestige and toward a hermetic national identity based on
the opposition of ""us vs. us"" rather than ""us vs. them."" She
offers an intriguing analysis of the contemporary debate over what
it means to be Russian and where ""true"" Russians reside.
The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is
a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of
the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and
Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a
particular short story, collectively they elucidate the
developments in each authoraEURO (TM)s oeuvre and in the subjects,
structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story.
American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent
themes of languageaEURO (TM)s power and limits, of childhood and
old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and
artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short
story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of
value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and
genre theory.
The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is
a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of
the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and
Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a
particular short story, collectively they elucidate the
developments in each authoraEURO (TM)s oeuvre and in the subjects,
structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story.
American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent
themes of languageaEURO (TM)s power and limits, of childhood and
old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and
artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short
story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of
value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and
genre theory.
Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of
international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov's life
and work through a twenty-first century critical lens.
Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov's service career,
the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in his work,
the diverse philosophical threads that shape his novels, and the
often colliding contexts of writer and imperial bureaucrat in the
1858 travel text Frigate Pallada. Chapters engage with approaches
from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and the
novel, desire, laughter, technology, and mobility and travel.
Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's
cultural imagination. Popular culture has increasingly turned from
the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow to
celebrate the hinterlands as repositories of national traditions
and moral strength. Lyudmila Parts argues that this change has
directed debate about Russia's identity away from its loss of
imperial might and global prestige and toward a hermetic national
identity based on the opposition of "us vs. us" rather than "us vs.
them." In Search of the True Russia offers an intriguing analysis
of the contemporary debate over what it means to be Russian.
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